Illegal Immigrants in TRNC? You got to be kidding..
TRNC is the homeland for the Turks who were subjected to genocide by Greek Cypriots. A few hundreds of people, they are isolated by Greek cypriots. But the Turkey is capable to guard them till eternity.

Armenians back-stabbed Ottoman Empire in collaboration with russians. They committed genocide on muslims.
It is true that they were decisively defeated by Turks. However, instead of accepting mistake, they are hoping that Turkey will apologize!!!!
Some people never learn...What else I can say..
while enjoying the victim-hood, you may please note that these shameless people massacred Azeris few years ago.

If you talk about real genocides, there are examples from the time of Crimea to latest one in Bosnia, which Muslims try to forget and forgive.
It seams those gains by Orthodox Christians are not permanent as Turkey is witnessing a strategic growth and its historic rival, russia is in terminal decline.
In today's scenario, the only thing that avoids a total annihilation of Armenia by Azerbaijan (Who is now stronger than Armenia in all aspects, thanks to Petrodollars and Turkish Assistance) is the Russian Military presence in the country.
For turkey its just wait and watch on what comes out of today's russia in the future.
Definitely, time is on Turkish side. Armenians and Greeks have failed to take advantage of turkey's good gestures. This is going to be costly for them.

If you ever dream of removing Tukish army from TRNC and Unify the island as single republic, I can only say that you are very far from reality.

If there were any chances for unification, that was spoiled by G/C's "No" Vote.

Isolation isn't as hurting like oppression and genocide. Atleast Turkish Cypriots enjoy safety and security now. On Economic aspect they aren't so bad either. Their GDP percapita has reached 70% of Greek Cyprus already. If you can live peacefully and be financially well off, why should T/C's ever think of reunification and take chances???

@freethinking
You should consider the events starting from 1960s, and stop playing with numbers.

From Wikipedia (check the relevant page for external citations):

Kyle notes "there is no doubt that the main victims of the numerous incidents that took place during the next few months were Turks". 700 Turkish hostages, including women and children, were taken from the northern suburbs of Nicosia. Nikos Sampson led a group of Greek Cypriot irregulars into the mixed suburb of Omorphita and massacred the Turkish Cypriot population indiscriminately. By 1964, 193 Turkish Cypriots and 133 Greek Cypriots were killed, with a further 209 Turks and 41 Greeks missing, presumed dead. The British Daily Telegraph called it the "anti Turkish pogrom".

post '74:
In the meantime, Nikos Sampson was declared provisional president of the new government. 'Had Turkey not intervened,' Sampson told the Greek newspaper, Eleftherotipia, on 26.02.81, 'I would not only have proclaimed Enosis but I would have annihilated the Turks in Cyprus as well.'[see the external resource in Wikipedia].

So you think Turkey should have waited till all Turks were killed... Europe did the same thing, waited till most of the Bosnians were killed, and only then, reacted.

None of these facts, however, legitimise the death of thousands of innocent Greek civilians. But I am just fed up with those people who claim that the Turkish intervention came out of no reason.

Re Cyprus, can you please explain how many Turkishcypriots were killed during the Greek fascists' coup against Makarios' government (none, for your information), and is it self defence for Turkish troops to kill innocent Cypriot civilians and POWs (over 7000 people in just a few days - over 1% of Cyprus population - so imagine this scenario in Turkey - 700,000 Turks in a few days being killed - is this self defence in any way?)? These are war crimes, for which Turkey has been found guilty so maybe all those judges in Europe are just biased, right?
Biased in favour of insignificant Cyprus as opposed to the huge Turkey, with NATO's 2nd biggest army and 17th biggest economy in the world...right?

Stone the Turks to death! Popular and easy option, isn't it? 265 comments so far; too much hate speech, in addition to 'subjective and emotional' verbal behaviour. Many irrelevant topics are being covered (like Cyprus issue and Turkey's EU membership) as well. As a novice, and probably uneducated on the issues being discussed compared to most of you; here comes my summary (Although these will not be directly related to the article we are commenting on):

1. I do not believe that the religious intolerance in Turkey is more than, for example, Switzerland. Turkey is a secular state, and will always remain like that; governments are not permanent...
2. Turkish governments, throughout the history of the republic, oppressed the Kurdish minority by banning their language. This is changing; but yes, it should have been a more rapid change. The foundation of PKK and the support it received from many countries however, cannot and should not be supported. This is terrorism, drug trafficking, murder etc.
3. No westerners listen to or know the story of Cyprus from an objective perspective. The military coup in Greece and killings of Turkish Cypriots initiated Turkey's interference in 1974. The interference was self defence. However, after the fall of military junta, Turkey should have left and let the people of Cyprus should have decided on their future together; both Greeks and Turks. Yet, Greece should also have looked for cooperation rather than crying to her western brothers.
4. European Union membership... The only way Turkey can be in the union is the day when Eastern part of the country is separated, the Turkish existence in Cyprus is terminated, and the control of Bosporus and strategic locations in the remaining part of the country is given to the control of imperial forces. So this is not a good deal for Turkey. Having options is better.
5. No matter what this government has in mind; Turkish people are not becoming religious lunatics. For god's sake; they like having fun, drinking Raki etc. Of course it is better for, for example, United Stated if Turkey becomes a country like Saudi Arabia, and ruled with Sharia. It will be easier for them to control the people then. Stop dreaming, this will not happen.
6. I believe in the youth in Greece, in Turkey, in Armenia, in dominantly Kurdish populated regions... Things will change...

At the point where the PKk started killing people the president of Turkey, Turgut Ozal was a Kurd. With him Turkey was enjoying high economic growth. No genocide was done or intended.

Christian powers disliked the sight of a Moslem country catching up and organized the PKK to stop Turkey.

They could not stop Turkey but they did succeed in stopping economic growth of the Kurdish region.

By now Turkey has over 10 000 $ income per capita the Kurdish region has 1000 $. Two thirds of that is financed by the Turks, whose children the PKK kills.

The PKK people I know never claim any genocide. It is simply not a fact. They admit that they are cooperating with any enemy of turkey they can find but feel this engagement against their own interests legitimate.

That is the culture which keeps the Middle East poor and miserable.

What is the Iraqi Kurds' justification for supporting the most brutal occupation any Arab country has suffered under since Jenghiz Khan?

Fahrettin Tahir you know nothing about Kurdish language so I ignore your nonsense comment about learning many dialects as Kurdish language have a formal dialect which anyone educated should understand! not in Turkey though as Turks are not civilized enough to allow people to study in their mother tongue.as for your comment on Diyarbaker prison torture. this was one example of Turkish brutality. but this didnot make PKK to start revolution. what is started it was when the Turkish brutal cope leader decided genocide campaign similar to the Armenian one against Kurds to wipe out Kurdish villager.

Because Turkish cope leaders though they may be able to force the Kurds who live in the cities to assimilate and forget their Kurdishness but thought people in rural villages will always speak Kurdish and keep their tradition. So they saw them as a threat to Turkish state unity and decided their final solution to kill and murder the villagers.

Turkish regime has raised 4,000 villages and killed over 50,000 civilians which are officially reported as disappeared in turkey,,but as PKK fought back Turkish regime, Turkish state changed policy and stopped the killing so that people do not go to the mountain to join the PKK.

So if there was not a PKK, like Armenian, Kurdish would have now asked Turkey to recognize Kurdish genocide. But thanks to brave PKK men and women Turkish dream became a nightmare.

Based on this historical fact that Turkish history books never documented, PKK has every right to fight for liberation of Kurdistan from the brutal nasty enemy that designed all their chauvinistic laws to halt Kurdish nation’s progress.

Now PKK managed to defeat Turkey politically and sent Ataturk and his legacy to the dust bin of history.

Turkey is not fascist; not by a long way and there are no concentration camps and no official policy of extermination

It is nationalist and strongly so and it ill served by its corrupt political class - France and Italy have many of the same tendencies and both thos ecountries can be pretty intolerant of outsiders and minorities - think waht has happened to Bretagne and its culture or Pays Basques and its.

Turkey is also ill served by an underfunded poorly managed education system

And if you are objective - and most comemntators here are not - you have to recognise 1) the Armenians from 1870 onwards were agitating for more freedom within the empire and at various times took up arms against their rulers with the assistance of outside help (Irish nationalists did teh same in their struggle against the British Empire, American nationalists did the same, Acehnese nationalists did the same, Vietnamese nationalists did the same)The Ottomans (as did the British in 1916 and 1776, as did the Indonesians in the 1970s, as did teh French in the 1950s) responded with brutal force. The Kurds were promised a homeland by the British, who with the French reneged and divided the oil rich parts of the former Ottoman empire between them; the Turkish Republic's attitude to the Greeks was much shaped by the crazy invasion of Turkey by Venizelos in which millions of Turks were massacred, raped and otherwise brutalised by the advancing army and by their newly "liberated" "Greek" neighbours led in many cases by nationalist, even Fascist, Greek Orthodox clergy. Which in no way excuses the ultimate Turkish revenge in destroying Smyrna.

My point, action creates reaction; anger breeds anger; resentment breeds resentment. Look for faults closer to home before you start accusing others. As the old slogan goes fighting for peace is like effing for virginity, so Intolerating intolerance is also an oxymoron.

C'mon people, fascism may be too strong a word to describe Turkey of 2010. Let us consider this example & decide the best adjective/noun to describe her.

In this week's press Turkey celebrates the first book in Kurdish which MAY be approved to be studied at a small number of Turkish schools.

Let's reflect on this happy first for Turkey.

A single book in Kurdish, for the education needs of close to 20 million people, 22+% of the country's population, whose native mother tongue is an Indo-European language unrelated to Turkish, in 87 years of the Turkish Republic, MAY BE APPROVED by magistrates from the Turkish majority of the country!

- There are more Christians living individually in the Islamic Republic of Iran, more in Egypt, more in Lebanon and more in Syria than Turkey, if these third world autocratic societies can be more tolerant what the hell is Turkey’s problem??!

- There even more moslems in Serbia than christians in the whole of Turkey!